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xwan on 08 January 2013
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BlkPaladin said:
HesAPooka said:
xwan said:
HesAPooka said:
I've been pretty unproductive and unsuccessful for about 3 years now. Why? because I've been sick and in and out of dr's offices who can't figure out wtf is wrong with me. If this keeps up is it my fault? I've been to about 9 dr's. 6 Specialists, and 3 general practitioners. They all agree something is wrong, but don't know what so they just keep passing me around to the next one. Not sure if they're lazy or just don't give a damn, but all I know is in the last 3 years I've done nothing with my life.


I can guarantee you that no doctors would like to see their patients sick, we have no shortage of sick people. I wish they would stop coming. There are still alot of medical problems that we do not know about and I suspect some rare conditions are not even described in textbooks.  There are also alot of 'vague' shit that is poorly defined such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, so on so forth...those diagnosis are sort of 'trash basket' diagnosis and are diagnosis of 'exclusion'. But i cannot speak for your '9' doctors. What kinds of symptoms are you experiencing exactly?


I sent you a PM. 

Just to add the work load that some doctors have make it so they cannot spend enough time dianosing problems. My mom had problems of losing her sight every now and then, was lythargic (but she still did all of her work), and became really irritable at times. She also started to gain weight. (She was 110lbs for until she was 38 then she couldn't loose the weight. She had doctors tell her it was all in her head. (It thought that view went out during the mid-20th century.) It took 5 years to get a correct disnosis, when she was loosing her sight she had a sever baterial infection that killed off her thyroid amoung other lymphnodes, which caused her lythargic state and weight gain. Now it is under control but she hasn't been able to loose weight because she fell down some stairs and dimolished her right foot so she cannot even walk correctly. (The doctors are actually surprised she can walk, every bone in her right foot was broken and the mussles where ripped; she had to have her foot pinned and stiched together.)

Is your primary care doctor sleeping? sorry man but lethary, lack of energy, and weight gain are classic symptoms for hypothyroidism. That should be the first thing to check in an young-middle age female. I don't think it's bacterial though, it's probably autoimmune. Bacterial tends to be somewhat of an acute problem. Anways, hindsight is always 20/20 right? maybe she had completely normal thyroid stimulating hormone and free T4 that threw the PMD at a loop. Which can happen.

 

What I have found is that most missed diagnosis are not "strange disease" but rather common diseases that presents atypically.

Most docs diagnosed based on pattern recognization thats in the textbook; when the pattern does not fit the classic pattern is when things become difficult. You cannot rely on labs and imaging studies as well; they are not 100% sensitive or specific

 

Anyways i need to go to bed, i got clinic tomorrow. later guys